Hello everyone. I have just migrated Home Assistant from a Raspberry Pi4 to an ESXI 8.0 installed on a ThinkCentre M70Q Tiny gen 2 PC.
I had a backup witch I restored on the new Virtual Machine where I have installed Home Assistant using haos_ova-14.2.vmdk
At first I passed to the Virtual Machine the audio card on the system: HD-Audio Generic Analog Stereo
It was detected correctly as follow:
alsa_output.pci-0000_02_01.0.analog-stereo
alsa_input.pci-0000_02_01.0.analog-stereo
I did use the “ha audio default output --name alsa_output.pci-0000_02_01.0.analog-stereo” to set it as the default card.
After that I have opened the MPD addon and on the configuration page I selected the audio input and output to this device.
The problem is that no matter what I try, I get no sound to the speakers connected to this audio card.
I have to mention that the cables and speaker is working fine when connected to other devices.
I did try with two other USB audio cards (Sound Blaster XMOD and X-Fi 5.1). I connected them to the Virtual Machine and started Home Assistant, then set them as default, then selected them in MPD Add On and same result: No Audio.
Please help me solve this.
I am desperate and I used TTS to announce some events and really miss them.
Thank you.
No sound from your Home Assistant on ESXI with MPD? First, verify audio works outside Home Assistant. Check MPD configuration (output plugin, device ID). Review Home Assistant logs for errors. Ensure your audio device has proper drivers and sufficient resources. Try a different audio player within Home Assistant. If issues persist, reinstall the MPD addon.
Thank you for your reply. I did all I could to debug and solve this. Then I installed Windows on the same server and the problem was identical. So I deducted that ESXi is to blame. Now I understand why many people migrate from ESXI to Proxmox.